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Abstract: Given the recent controversy within the intelligence community, the rise of “politicized intelligence,” and the increase in attention given to intelligence both within the government and the general public, efforts to explain the intelligence-policy relat

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Abstract: The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is somewhat unique in its training of people who seek international careers. This graduate school has a curriculum that gives all students a solid grounding in economics. It has a number of area and functional studies to give concrete substance to this economic focus. Until recently, South Asia was the one area missing in the geographic area offerings at a school in which area studies are a vital and growing element. Two years ago, the school hired a director from an academic background to lay the groundworkfor a South Asia program. A year later, a person was hired from the policy community to strengthgen the larger program. The South Asia program functions within the larger Asia program at SAIS, and courses and programming are done in coordination with this larger administrative program.

This paper focuses on what has been achieved, the outreach effort to the larger community and the peculiar fund raising aspects that are so critical in keeping the program alive, attracting good students, and running conferences and sponsoring visiting fellows. It also notes the program's challenges, which probably reflect the problems confronting geographic area studies programs throughout the United. States.

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Abstract: In both the American popular news media and the more scholarly literature, there is a notion that policymakers should be separated from intelligence producers. The belief behind this "separation norm" is that it safeguards the integrity and impartiality of the intelligence analysis provided to policymakers. However, this separation norm is not universally present across national boundaries. Explaining the presence of the separation norm is important because the norm purports to improve the quality of intelligence analysis. Yet, the separation norm may also have unintended negative effects. Understanding the institutional origins of the separation norm and the conditions under which it is appropriate may contribute to a more accurate assessment of its costs and benefits. This paper outlines some theoretical explanations for the presence or absence of the separation norm in the cases of the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Abstract: This study explores the roles and relationships between legislative fiscal analysts and other key budget actors in an effort to better understand how legislative fiscal analysts impact state budget policy. It is part of a larger study on how these roles and relationships condition the influence of legislative fiscal analysts in state budget development.

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Abstract: Whether as brokers, critics or analysts, market intermediaries have lately received substantial attention in economic sociology. Intermediaries shape the value of goods by embedding transactions into social relations, but also by providing critical advice about value in anonymous mass markets. As Wall Street specialists on valuation, security analysts constitute an important class of market intermediary. A good understanding of what they do can shed important light into the complex financial mechanism whereby claims, data and information of different kinds become stock prices. However, the academic literature on security analysts is characterized by a puzzling discrepancy between theory and practice: while the literature provides a highly critical account of analysts, this occupational category has survived for almost a century. In this paper we offer a possible explanation. We undertake a grounded theory, qualitative content analysis of the reports on Amazon.com written by Henry Blodget and rival security analysts during 1998-2000. Underlying the controversies among these analysts, we found internally consistent networks of associations between categorizations, key metrics and analogies. We refer to these as calculative frames. These structure interpretation, facilitate calculation and lead to imitation. The presence of these frames suggests that analysts should be regarded as frame makers, specialized intermediaries that help investors attach numerical measures of financial value to stocks, even under extreme uncertainty.